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    firewire: ohci: avoid separate DMA mapping for small AT payloads · da28947e
    Clemens Ladisch authored
    For AT packet payloads of up to eight bytes, we have enough unused space
    in the DMA descriptors list so that we can put a copy of the payload
    there and thus avoid having to create a separate streaming DMA mapping
    for the payload buffer.
    
    In a CPU-bound microbenchmark that just sends 8-byte packets, bandwidth
    was measured to increase by 5.7 %, from 1009 KB/s to 1067 KB/s.  In
    practice, the only performance-sensitive usage of small asynchronous
    packets is the SBP-2 driver's write to the ORB_POINTER register during
    SCSI command submission.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarClemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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